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im so close to dnf this but i'd actually feel so guilty bc i totally see how lovable it can be :-(

"Some days a single smile from the monarch sets her heart racing, and such dizziness sweeps through her she has to remain absolutely still lest she lose her balance and fall."

im not even done yet but i can already feel the healed markings of this book on my heart and soul

"I have been a goddess, but I am a pious lady of good manners, and I know that in this house, there is only space for one god." I GOT CHILLS!!!

"It’s hard to speak of something so gauche as ambition
while the whole wheezing mosaic chips away but let it be known
I do hope one day to be free of this body’s dry wood"

sometimes I am so ashamed of my sentience how little it matters
angels don’t care about humility
you shaved your head
spent eleven days half-starved in solitary
and not a single divine trumpet wept into song
now it’s lonely all over

"He thinks of hunger, of putting Stolas' fingers in his mouth just to have something to taste. Of biting down hard enough to draw blood. He wonders how easy it would be."

"In the past, ovarian development was considered a ‘default’ development due solely to the absence of SRY; however, in the last 10 years, ovarian-determining genes have also been found that actively lead to the development of a female gonad." and folks this has been the state of gynecology for so long

it's such a unique read but not as gripping as i expected help

reading this book and simultaneously watching interview with the vampire (show) is super cool because they both execute the immortality concept so differently yet so compelling

“We are changing people’s lives. It may not matter to us; it may be… irrelevant, in the grand scheme of things. But in the grand scheme of things there are billions of people in this century alone who believe it to be very relevant indeed, and though we may have more time than they do, they still have the greater mass.”

When I am optimistic, I choose to believe that every life I lead, every choice I make, has consequence. That I am not one Harry August but many, a mind flicking from parallel life to parallel life, and that when I die, the world carries on without me, altered by my deeds, marked by my presence.

Dr August, there is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd. He may nod, and smile, and say the right thing, but even by this pretence his soul is pushed further away from the kinship of men.

"Don’t let anyone tell you writers are self-centered assholes. I saw so many of them work selflessly to elicit a single giggle out of a stranger huddled over a laptop screen at 3 a.m. It was never about ego, it was all about You. That abstract unknown entity Disco Elysium is constantly addressing. You see this. You do that. We hope You are delighted."

“Looking at the waves scudding outwards and getting lost on the horizon, he could not help but recall the words of his mentor, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who had once told him that a part of eternity lies in reach of those capable of staring, unblinking, at the sea’s deranging expanses.”

i was so tough and strong until i read the epilogue, shattered me like glassware
full review later hopefully i need to pull myself together

tried so hard to keep the tears in i got a headache

i have so many conflicting feelings about this book so far omg the hype train is taking a toll on me

To his friends, who worried about the effects eventual blindness might have on an astronomer’s career, he said—only partly in jest—that he, like Odin, had sacrificed one eye to be able to see further with the other.
آره آره دارم چند تا کتابو همزمان میخونم ولی عجب چیزیه این یکی

flipping the table bc i couldn't get its physical copy jkhfhehhfoe

Your name like two X’s like punched-in eyes, like a drunk cartoon passed out in the gutter, your name with two X’s to mark the spots, to hold the place, to keep the treasure from becoming ever lost. I’m saying your name in the grocery store, I’m saying your name on the bridge at dawn.
تهش از دست این تشبیهاتش پخش زمین میشم

definitely a chill read, and by chill I mean sending shivers down my spine

“Rune” means “secret”, and Odin knew that learning how they worked would be difficult. “But when has it ever
been easy to obtain anything worthwhile?” he thought.

So, you kiss him, and he doesn't move, he doesn't pull away, and you keep on kissing him. And he hasn't moved, he's frozen, and you've kissed him, and he'll never forgive you, and maybe now he'll leave you alone. وای وای وای وای

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.
فکر نمیکردم اینجوری شوکم کنه این کتاب

It seems, in thy restraint: what could I more?
I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold
The danger, and the lurking enemy
That lay in wait; beyond this had been force,
And force upon free will hath here no place. (IX, 1170-1174)

They laughed when a beggar picked up the bow, but he strung it in one swift movement. The suitors suddenly realized who the beggar was, but
Odysseus wanted revenge. He turned the bow on the suitors,
firing arrow after arrow until they were all dead.

Arachne's tapestry, meanwhile, included acts of cruelty committed by gods on mortals, such as Zeus transforming into a bull and stealing Europa away from her home. Arachne wanted to show that the gods weren't perfect.